AMERICANS MAKE HEADLINES IN GERMANY.

After the world premiere in April of Kevin O'Day's Delta Inserts at Stuttgart Ballet, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany's leading national paper, declared it "not only the best work to have joined the Stuttgart repertory during the three years of Reid Anderson's reign; It is also the best dance piece to cross the Atlantic to Europe in several years." This controversial statement, if true, would mean that Delta Inserts is a better ballet than Balanchine's Four Temperaments and Stravinsky Violin Concerto or Robbins's Afternoon of a Faun, all three imported by Anderson.... Another American creation drawing attention in Germany was Mark Dendy's Swan Lake in Dortmund. Not exactly one of Germany's top ballet addresses, the city in the industrial Ruhr district made headlines with Dendy's role-reshuffling. The Siegfried, called simply President, lusts after a TV journalist named Dianne Walters; Odette bears a striking resemblance to a certain Monica L., and the President's mother (danced by a man) is obviously a Kennedy. The dance winds through the Oval Office, the White House press room, a discotheque, and an imaginary country inhabited by female and much more attractive male swans. It ends with the President's execution in an electric chair, after which he and Odette-Monica are happily united in heaven.